# Building your first add-on

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| <p>In this webinar we demonstrated how to get up and running with building add-ons for Squirrel365.  <br><br>The Squirrel365 add-on framework enables our customers to rapidly meet their additional application/dashboard needs as well as provide additional functionality and visualisations to the wider Squirrel community. If this is something you're interested to explore, this session covered all you need to get up and running!<br><br>The session covered:</p><p>·         An overview of the add-on framework</p><p>·         The developer program</p><p>·         Where to find the Squirrel365 add-on documentation</p><p>·         Setting up your environment and testing</p><p>·         Building a function add-on</p><p>·         Building a component add-on</p><p>·         Publishing to the Squirrel365 Marketplace</p> |
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